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2014 TARRAGONA INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL ON TRENDS IN COMPUTING
SSTiC 2014
Tarragona, Spain
July 7-11, 2014
Organized by
Rovira i Virgili University
http://grammars.grlmc.com/sstic2014/
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AIM:
SSTiC 2014 is the second edition in a series started in 2013. For the
previous event, see http://grammars.grlmc.com/SSTiC2013/
SSTiC 2014 will be a research training event mainly addressed to PhD
students and PhD holders in the first steps of their academic career. It
intends to update them about the most recent developments in the diverse
branches of computer science and its neighbouring areas. To that purpose,
renowned scholars will lecture and will be available for interaction with
the audience.
SSTiC 2014 will cover the whole spectrum of computer science through 5
keynote lectures and 24 six-hour courses dealing with some of the most
lively topics in the field. The organizers share the idea that outstanding
speakers will really attract the brightest students.
ADDRESSED TO:
Graduate students from around the world. There are no formal pre-requisites
in terms of the academic degree the attendee must hold. However, since there
will be several levels among the courses, reference may be made to specific
knowledge background in the description of some of them.
SSTiC 2014 is also appropriate for more senior people who want to keep
themselves updated on developments in their own field or in other branches
of computer science. They will surely find it fruitful to listen and discuss
with scholars who are main references in computing nowadays.
REGIME:
In addition to keynotes, 3 parallel sessions will be held during the whole
event. Participants will be able to freely choose the courses they will be
willing to attend as well as to move from one to another.
VENUE:
SSTiC 2014 will take place in Tarragona, located 90 kms. to the south of
Barcelona. The venue will be:
Campus Catalunya
Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Av. Catalunya, 35
43002 Tarragona
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
Larry S. Davis (U Maryland, College Park), A Historical Perspective of
Computer Vision Models for Object Recognition and Scene Analysis
David S. Johnson (Columbia U, New York), Open and Closed Problems in
NP-Completeness
George Karypis (U Minnesota, Twin Cities), Recommender Systems Past,
Present, & Future
Steffen Staab (U Koblenz), Explicit and Implicit Semantics: Two Sides of One
Coin
Ronald R. Yager (Iona C, New Rochelle), Social Modeling
COURSES AND PROFESSORS:
Divyakant Agrawal (U California, Santa Barbara), [intermediate] Scalable
Data Management in Enterprise and Cloud Computing Infrastructures
Pierre Baldi (U California, Irvine), [intermediate] Big Data Informatics
Challenges and Opportunities in the Life Sciences
Stephen Brewster (U Glasgow), [introductory] Multimodal Human-computer
Interaction
Rajkumar Buyya (U Melbourne), [intermediate] Cloud Computing
John M. Carroll (Pennsylvania State U, University Park), [introductory]
Usability Engineering and Scenario-based Design
Kwang-Ting (Tim) Cheng (U California, Santa Barbara),
[introductory/intermediate] Smartphones: Hardware Platform, Software
Development, and Emerging Apps
Amr El Abbadi (U California, Santa Barbara), [introductory] The Distributed
Foundations of Data Management in the Cloud
Richard M. Fujimoto (Georgia Tech, Atlanta), [introductory] Parallel and
Distributed Simulation
Mark Guzdial (Georgia Tech, Atlanta), [introductory] Computing Education
Research: What We Know about Learning and Teaching Computer Science
David S. Johnson (Columbia U, New York), [introductory] The Traveling
Salesman Problem in Theory and Practice
George Karypis (U Minnesota, Twin Cities), [intermediate] Programming
Models/Frameworks for Parallel & Distributed Computing
Aggelos K. Katsaggelos (Northwestern U, Evanston), [intermediate]
Optimization Techniques for Sparse/Low-rank Recovery Problems in Image
Processing and Machine Learning
Arie E. Kaufman (U Stony Brook), [advanced] Visualization
Carl Lagoze (U Michigan, Ann Arbor), [introductory] Curation of Big Data
Bijan Parsia (U Manchester), [introductory] The Empirical Mindset in
Computer Science
Charles E. Perkins (FutureWei Technologies, Santa Clara), [intermediate]
Beyond LTE: the Evolution of 4G Networks and the Need for Higher Performance
Handover System Designs
Sudhakar M. Reddy (U Iowa, Iowa City), [introductory] Test and Design for
Test of Digital Logic Circuits
Robert Sargent (Syracuse U), [introductory] Validation of Models
Mubarak Shah (U Central Florida, Orlando), [intermediate] Visual Crowd
Analysis
Steffen Staab (U Koblenz), [intermediate] Programming the Semantic Web
Mike Thelwall (U Wolverhampton), [introductory] Sentiment Strength Detection
for Twitter and the Social Web
Jeffrey D. Ullman (Stanford U), [introductory] MapReduce Algorithms
Nitin Vaidya (U Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), [introductory/intermediate]
Distributed Consensus: Theory and Applications
Philip Wadler (U Edinburgh), [intermediate] Topics in Lambda Calculus and
Life
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
Adrian Horia Dediu (Tarragona)
Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, chair)
Florentina Lilica Voicu (Tarragona)
REGISTRATION:
It has to be done at
http://grammars.grlmc.com/sstic2014/registration.php
The selection of up to 8 courses requested in the registration template is
only tentative and non-binding. For the sake of organization, it will be
helpful to have an approximation of the respective demand for each course.
Since the capacity of the venue is limited, registration requests will be
processed on a first come first served basis. The registration period will
be closed when the capacity of the venue will be complete. It is very
convenient to register prior to the event.
FEES:
As far as possible, participants are expected to attend for the whole (or
most of the) week (full-time). Fees are a flat rate allowing one to
participate to all courses. They vary depending on the registration
deadline.
ACCOMMODATION:
Information about accommodation will be available on the website of the
School in due time.
CERTIFICATE:
Participants will be delivered a certificate of attendance.
QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:
florentinalilica.voicu at urv.cat
POSTAL ADDRESS:
SSTiC 2014
Lilica Voicu
Rovira i Virgili University
Av. Catalunya, 35
43002 Tarragona, Spain
Phone: +34 977 559 543
Fax: +34 977 558 386
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:
Departament dEconomia i Coneixement, Generalitat de Catalunya
Universitat Rovira i Virgili